Three steps to integrate digital content effectively: link content to educational goals, select performance standards, and measure and adjust against standards¶

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Description¶

The report prescribes an ordered procedure for schools integrating digital content: "Once schools and districts commit to the vision of digital learning, the CEO Forum offers three steps to help ensure greater success in integrat-ing digital content." The steps are to identify educational goals and link digital content to those objectives; select the student outcomes and performance standards that will be achieved by digital content; and measure and evaluate outcomes against standards and adjust accordingly. Two supporting recommendations accompany the steps: perform a digital content inventory and increase investment in digital content.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• The report states an institution must commit to a vision of digital learning and have sufficient technological infrastructure, professional development and processes before the steps can occur.

Constraints¶

• The report warns technology is demonstrated to be less effective if the educational objectives or outcomes of the technology use are not clear.

Target Learners¶

• K-12 students

Target Learning Goals¶

• achieving educational objectives and performance standards through digital content

Related Strategies¶

• Summative Assessment to Measure Learning Over Time

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• The Power of Digital Learning: Integrating Digital Content. The CEO Forum School Technology and Readiness Report, Year Three. (2000). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED447781